PHNOM PENH, June 30 -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the talks he had made with Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan on Saturday were "fruitful and honest."
He said the meeting, which was held in a private and close-door form.
Elaborating the content of the talks, Hun Sen said the Thai delegation, upon his prior warning, did not raise Preah Vihear issue, but many other topics such as those related to joint development projects between the two nations.
Attributing to the points, he said, "We talked about developments of overlapping maritime areas that aimed at exploiting oil and gas, among others development projects."
The premier, however, said he did reiterate how to ease border tension in general and to avoid further armed clashes and urged Thailand to withdraw their troops from the area near Preah Vihear Temple.
He said Cambodian troops will never withdraw unless 30 Thai troops deployed near Preah Vihear temple first withdraw.
Also, during the talks, Hun Sen said he had warned Thai side not to fly their military aircraft over Cambodian territory, saying his armed forces have been newly equipped with modern ground-to-air missiles.
Hun Sen, however, said his statement meant nothing to show off his country's armament or any will to have warfare, but they were stocked and would be used only for self-defense purposes.
Cambodia and Thailand have had border dispute after Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was listed as World Heritage site in July last year.
He said the meeting, which was held in a private and close-door form.
Elaborating the content of the talks, Hun Sen said the Thai delegation, upon his prior warning, did not raise Preah Vihear issue, but many other topics such as those related to joint development projects between the two nations.
Attributing to the points, he said, "We talked about developments of overlapping maritime areas that aimed at exploiting oil and gas, among others development projects."
The premier, however, said he did reiterate how to ease border tension in general and to avoid further armed clashes and urged Thailand to withdraw their troops from the area near Preah Vihear Temple.
He said Cambodian troops will never withdraw unless 30 Thai troops deployed near Preah Vihear temple first withdraw.
Also, during the talks, Hun Sen said he had warned Thai side not to fly their military aircraft over Cambodian territory, saying his armed forces have been newly equipped with modern ground-to-air missiles.
Hun Sen, however, said his statement meant nothing to show off his country's armament or any will to have warfare, but they were stocked and would be used only for self-defense purposes.
Cambodia and Thailand have had border dispute after Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple was listed as World Heritage site in July last year.
9 comments:
i think the preah vihear scenerio is a wake up call for cambodia to arm up our country armed forces with modern weaponries, etc, so we have something and are ready to defense our country in case of foreign attack anytime and anywhere. as a nation, we must have something to defend our country from foreign invasion like like any country on the planet.
I agreed with you 11:12PM, we must arm up our arm forces with all kind of new equipments to protect our motherland, we do not want the war but must defend our country, we never know what will happend in future?
Must do it first befor it's too late.
Hope as Hun Sen said: we've got all new weaponries, is true.
Buddha bless Khmer
Battambang man
it is a wake up call for cambodia to reform and overhaul and equipped our nation with modern weapons for self-defense, of course! can't be relaxed! got to be ready all the time 24/7, like any country on the face of the planet. wake up, cambodia and start thinking about this! thank you and god bless cambodia.
11:54 PM
Here's a video of Khmer soldiers with new uniforms, new rifles (modern AK variant), and new portable anti-aircraft surface-to-air-missisles (SAM).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94z6XYHgcE
There were nothing fruitfull and honest among crooks.
Beside, what is the uses of having soldiers and guns, when many illegal youns are in the countrie and running the government.
Cambodia must keep up and improved their armed forces and be ready to defense our country, co'z in the future there's might be another attack from these greeds neighbors country, as long as cambodia strong with arms forces and fully equipped with modernize weaponary, those greeds neighbors will think twice....
Thailand had look down on cambodia for so long! they seeing cambodia has poor equipped military and small army, this is making Thailand look down us more and more....they think we can't fight them! but they'r wrong!
Thailand has pussy army!
Dear Sir,
We must keep the gate close forever from the Thai side because the new Thai Leaders are not good with Cambodia.
We spend our Temple to the world, why Thais are not so happy with this matter of fact that this PV Temple belongs to the world.
Thai people (Surin, Sisaket, Buri Rum, Nokor Reach...) are getting a lot of benefit from the Temple if they are very sincere and cooperative with the Cambodians.
Thanks for kind understanding.
Ly
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